Was wondering where some of you guys who have been doing this for a while get your album, single or ep artwork done? Do you guys pull in a friend, find someone on CL, have someone from your label do it, or DIY?

I usually do my own artwork. Likewise, I've been around photoshop long enough to make something look decent...if that doesn't work I just snap a B&W picture of an alley or something and drop the text on top ;p

Honestly Craig's List is kind of shady these days so I wasn't sure Garruden meant that by CL at first myself.

There are places like fiverr.com as well where you can get services like graphic design as well. I know forum member @RFJ had some great luck getting inexpensive artwork through there for his last release.

Honestly Craig's List is kind of shady these days so I wasn't sure Garruden meant that by CL at first myself.

There are places like fiverr.com as well where you can get services like graphic design as well. I know forum member @RFJ had some great luck getting inexpensive artwork through there for his last release.

I did :p

I'm trying to figure out what I want to do for my material. I kind of want to use some of the photographs I've taken but am trying to figure out the text/adding geometrical layers and such. Trying to figure out whether to teach myself or outsource.

Over the last 4 years I've been self learning photography, photoshop and logo designing to do album covers and artwork for myself, it's a good thing to learn how to do! I'd recommend going down that route to save money and to save yourself from copyright

I try to do my own as much as possible. I've made a lot for individual tracks, especially for the songs in my first album. The two full albums I've made have had original artwork. However, for an album I am working on now, a friend (graphic design student) has offered to help. I'm also planning a concept album that will be an edit of a screencap from a documentary.